Police control traffic at the entrance of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City in Overland Park, Kan., after the fatal shootings.

Photo: Orlin Wagner, Associated Press

Police control traffic at the entrance of the Jewish Community...

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OVERLAND PARK, KS - APRIL 13: A police car is seen at the entrance of the Jewish Community Center after three were killed when a gunman opened fire on April 13, 2014 in Overland Park, Kansas. Police arrested and were questioning a suspect. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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OVERLAND PARK, KS - APRIL 13: A police car is seen at the entrance...

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Investigators work behind a police line near the location of a shooting at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kan., Sunday, April 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Three people were killed Sunday when a gunman opened fire outside a Kansas Jewish community center and a senior living facility.

Police arrested Frazier Glenn Cross, a 73-year-old Missouri man with a long history of anti-Semitic and racist statements. He was booked into jail on suspicion of premeditated first-degree murder but was not immediately charged.

"We are investigating it as a hate crime," said Police Chief John Douglass.

Public records show that Cross, who lives in Aurora, Mo., also uses the name Frazier Glenn Miller. The man has a history of anti-Semitic activity. In 2010, as a self-proclaimed write-in candidate for the U.S. Senate from Missouri, he purchased or tried to purchase advertising time on several Missouri radio stations. The ads bitterly denounced Jews, the federal government and African Americans.

"We've sat back and allowed the Jews to take over our government, our banks and our media," one radio commercial said.